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But a lot of stuff happening now was brewing under his leadership. MTA, homelessness, crime etc

Giuliani and Bloomberg should have went all in and made panhandling illegal, built more jails and precincts, and make our welfare and housing for New Yorkers with New York ID only (no outsiders welcome). If you are going to be republican, be republican. Instead as the city was getting “better”, homelessness and evictions rose.

The Supreme Court ruled that Americans have the right to travel to any state they want to and apply for welfare.

In short no mayor can restrict Americans or any other legal residents moving into NY.

More prisons and police cost more taxpayers money and all they would do is breed even more gangsters.

During the colonial era there was no such thing as mass incarceration. Minor crimes got you fined, no money to pay the crime and you got flogged. Serious crimes got you the death penalty. The Quaker’s pushed for an expansion of prisons. That has made the US number one in the world in incarceration and has done nothing to stop violence here.

The main good things Bloomberg did was rezone the city for development and make it more tourist friendly. The city certainly needed the money. But he did nothing for the root causes of crime, homelessness, neglected the MTA, etc. Tourism out a strain in the city Bloom erg did nothing address. Pataki, Giuliani, and Bloomberg weakened the rent stabilization laws and essentially gentrified their white working class base straight out of the city.

In short no mayor can restrict Americans or any other legal residents moving into NY.

More prisons and police cost more taxpayers money and all they would do is breed even more gangsters.

During the colonial era there was no such thing as mass incarceration. Minor crimes got you fined, no money to pay the crime and you got flogged. Serious crimes got you the death penalty. The Quaker’s pushed for an expansion of prisons. That has made the US number one in the world in incarceration and has done nothing to stop violence here.

The main good things Bloomberg did was rezone the city for development and make it more tourist friendly. The city certainly needed the money. But he did nothing for the root causes of crime, homelessness, neglected the MTA, etc. Tourism out a strain in the city Bloom erg did nothing address. Pataki, Giuliani, and Bloomberg weakened the rent stabilization laws and essentially gentrified their white working class base straight out of the city.

A large chunk of those people moved to the suburbs by choice. Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Greek-Americans, etc. are high earning groups

Some times ,buddinskis, especially off duty cops, need to mind there own business. If your off the clock,stay off the clock! NYPD needs to realize, you ain't on duty 24 hrs a day.

So these bad guys will get special treatment because daddy is head of the PDA union? Same feeling of entitlement as that lady in Brooklyn who hit and run the 4 years old girl, killing her, only to find out her brother is in the NYPD.

That NYPD union, is the same union that is always looking for a way to never ever have an officer face the music, for misdeeds and trampling on everyones rights. Nice guy, hey?

Them guys were probably not even Trinitarian. Just talking smack.they shouldn't have returned to the scene, dumb move. I hope they can lawyer up.

You would be singing a different tune if it was you one day getting a beat down by a couple of gangsters and an off duty Police Officer happened to walk by to save your life.

In short no mayor can restrict Americans or any other legal residents moving into NY.

More prisons and police cost more taxpayers money and all they would do is breed even more gangsters.

During the colonial era there was no such thing as mass incarceration. Minor crimes got you fined, no money to pay the crime and you got flogged. Serious crimes got you the death penalty. The Quaker’s pushed for an expansion of prisons. That has made the US number one in the world in incarceration and has done nothing to stop violence here.

The main good things Bloomberg did was rezone the city for development and make it more tourist friendly. The city certainly needed the money. But he did nothing for the root causes of crime, homelessness, neglected the MTA, etc. Tourism out a strain in the city Bloom erg did nothing address. Pataki, Giuliani, and Bloomberg weakened the rent stabilization laws and essentially gentrified their white working class base straight out of the city.

They can apply for welfare but isn’t it a stupid law in our nys constitution that states everyone even non nyc residents are entitled to housing

No way should people from other states come here and take away nyc taxpayer funded housing from New Yorkers. Nyc residents should be the priority first, I have a friend that works at shelters and familes from out of state enter our homeless system to get first dibs on housing. Even though they had housing in their home city but they claim DV and some just come here to try for a new life and pursue their dreams on nyc taxpayer dime.

This will in turn never lower our homelessness stats, they will always keep on coming. Plus the gentrification that is still happening pushing out native New Yorkers. The city can try to build all it wants but it will never be enough

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